Archive for March 2013

UPDATED 11:39 A.M. EDT (MARCH 21, U.S.A.) RealScam.com reports that the DDoS attack is continuing, but that measures have been taken to restore accessibility. The site is back online. Here, below, our earlier story . . . RealScam.com, a site that concerns itself with international mass-marketing fraud, is experiencing a DDoS attack, a source told […]

Tom Clements, Colorado’s top prison official, reportedly was shot and killed last night while answering the door at his home in Monument, El Paso County. Motives surrounding the shooting are unclear. There are early reports that security for other Colorado officials has been tightened. Gov. John Hickenlooper has ordered flags be lowered to half-staff all […]

Ronald Wesley Groves and Donald Charles Mann swindled $4.8 million from 642 investors in a bizarre “international bank trades” caper that promised a payout of 4,000 percent. Now, they’ve been sentenced to an extra year in federal prison for filing false liens against a federal prosecutor and two FBI agents involved in the fraud probe, […]

UPDATED 12:46 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The evidence against AdSurfDaily figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming was “overwhelming” and led to the purported “sovereign citizen’s” conviction on three counts of retaliating against a federal official by filing false claims, one count of concealing a person from arrest and one count of being a felon in possession of a […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Information from Tennessee was received after this story was published. The Tennessee info is published in the Comments thread below . . . UPDATED 8:18 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Louisiana has issued an Investor Alert on the Profitable Sunrise HYIP, joining a growing list of U.S. states and Canadian provinces to have done so. […]

Some members of the Profitable Sunrise HYIP have said they were providing loans to “Roman Novak,” who lent out the money at a higher rate and created profits for the business and its promoters. Profitable Sunrise has been hit by cease-and-desist orders or Investor Alerts in at least 25 U.S. states and Canadian provinces. Profitable […]

New Jersey has joined numerous U.S. states in issuing an Investor Alert on the Profitable Sunrise HYIP “program.” Separately, Alabama has issued a cease-and-desist order. The state previously issued an Investor Alert. With New Jersey’s action, the unofficial total of U.S. states or Canadian provinces issuing Investor Alerts or cease-and-desist orders now stands at 25. […]

The PP Blog experienced a partial service outage that lasted through all or parts of three days. The event appears to have begun sometime after 3:13 a.m. EDT Saturday, although a couple of readers have said they noticed problems earlier. An engineer said this evening that Saturday’s event does not appear to have had a […]

A Florida man has been arrested and booked in Seminole County on charges he attacked a woman who ripped him off in a Ponzi scheme. Booking information for Adam Pollock, 42, says he’s been charged with battery by strangulation, kidnap-false imprisonment, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery. He is charged with attacking Tina […]

UPDATED 8:52 A.M. EDT (APRIL 16, U.S.A.) See related stories here (April 1) and here (March 25). EDITOR’S NOTE: These numbers are unofficial. They are culled from media reports and/or news releases from enforcement agencies. As the PP Blog reported yesterday, the Profitable Sunrise website appears to be down. The reason why is unclear, although […]

BULLETIN: A Michigan woman who allegedly hindered an investigation into her on-the-lam husband’s Ponzi scheme has been charged with lying to a police officer during the investigation of a crime, a felony under state law. M. Viktoria Wilson, 24, of Saginaw, was arrested yesterday by Saginaw Valley State University Police, the office of Michigan Attorney […]